<p><em>More in the <a href="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2015/12/10/nbc-uses-ca…; target="_blank">cross-post</a> on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.</em></p>
<p>On Thursday, NBC’s <em>Today</em> seized on a cabdriver in Toronto attacking the car of an Uber driver as a chance to attack the entrepreneurial car service, with co-host Savannah Guthrie proclaiming: <strong>“A cabbie confronts an Uber driver and gets dragged 60 feet down the street, as the battle between the car service app and traditional taxis gets ugly.”</strong></p>
<p>In the report that followed, correspondent Willie Geist oddly described the “wild scene” by touting the cabdriver’s claim that <strong>“he started banging on the car because he was hoping to make a point that Uber drivers are unsafe and uninsured.”</strong> In contrast to that assertion, the video showed that the only person being “unsafe” was the cabbie, who hit the car several times before jumping on the moving vehicle.</p>